Apodeictic

Quick meaning: Apodeictic is an adjective meaning Affording proof; demonstrative.

Meaning

Affording proof; demonstrative.

More Meanings

1. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
2. (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.

Example Sentences

Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.

Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,.

1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition, Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty.

Word Forms

• apodictic

Synonyms for apodeictic

Depending on context, synonyms include true, apodictic.

Antonyms for apodeictic

Common opposites include anapodeictic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include true, apodictic, epidictical, apodict, apagogic, apophantic.

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